Quotes from Leo Tolstoy

Eu, ao contrário, creio que as duas questões estão indissoluvelmente ligadas - retrucou Piestov. - É um círculo vicioso. A mulher está privada de direitos por falta de instrução e a falta de instrução decorre da ausência de direitos. É preciso não esquecer que a escravização das mulheres é tão grande e tão antiga que nós, muitas vezes, não queremos compreender o abismo que nos separa delas - disse.

as is done by the newest historians, we shall have the history of monarchs and writers, but not the history of the life of the peoples.

those children were already beginning to repay her care by affording her small joys. These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold.

I'm not one of those men who submit to uneasiness and worry without having the force of character to face them. "I must think it over, come to a decision, and put it out of my mind," he said aloud.

and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them, for I shall be no more!

Let us rather confine ourselves to studying those sublime rules which our divine Saviour has left for our guidance here below. Let us try to conform to them and follow them, and let us be persuaded that the less we let our feeble human minds roam, the better we shall please God, who rejects all knowledge that does not come from Him; and the less we seek to fathom what He has been pleased to conceal from us, the sooner will He vouchsafe its revelation to us through His divine Spirit.

Prince Vasili took the first opportunity to gain his confidence, flatter him, become intimate with him,

I work, I want to do something, but I had forgotten it must all end; I had forgotten—death." He

These people are the most fundamental unbelievers, because if faith for them is a means of attaining some worldly goals, then that is certainly not faith.

Wszystkie szcz??liwe rodziny s? do siebie podobne, ka?da nieszcz??liwa rodzina jest nieszcz??liwa na swój sposób.

Look at the sky, and at the earth, and think that all things pass. All of the mountains and rivers you see, and all the forms of life, and all creations of nature, all pass. Then you will understand the truth; you will see what remains, what does not pass. —BUDDHIST WISDOM

happiness that flooded his soul.

But I shall spare her. On the ancient monuments of barbarism and despotism I will inscribe great words of justice and mercy

Those who can raise their thoughts to heaven will always have clear days, because the sun always shines above the clouds.

Ka?dy ma w duszy swoje skeletons.

He liked it all, but he had already liked it so many times!

The deeper we go in search of causes, the more of them we find, and each cause taken singly or whole series of causes present themselves to us as equally correct in themselves, and equally false in their insignificance in comparison with the enormity of the event, and equally false in their incapacity (without the participation of all other coinciding causes) to produce the event that took place.

A man having no freedom cannot be conceived of except as deprived of life.

Forse, io amo in lei la natura, la personificazione di quanto c'è di bello nella natura; ma non è che io abbia una volontà mia propria: attraverso me, c'è ad amarla non so quale forza elementare, la creazione intera; tutta la natura infonde quest'amore nell'anima mia, e mi dice: ama!

Though the children did not know Levin well and did not remember when they had last seen him, they did not feel towards him any of that strange shyness and antagonism so often felt by children towards grown-up people who 'pretend,' which causes them to suffer as painfully. Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it.

Fereasc? Dumnezeu s? te întâlne?ti cu ru?i în str?in?tate, e o ru?ine!

there is and can be no beginning to any event, for one event always flows uninterruptedly from another. The

in chess you may think over each move as long as you please and are not limited for time, and with this difference too, that a knight is always stronger than a pawn, and two pawns are always stronger than one, while in war a battalion is sometimes stronger than a division and sometimes weaker than a company. The relative strength of bodies of troops can never be known to anyone.

Vous êtes blessé?" Napoleon had asked him. "Je vous demande pardon, sire, je suis tué," the adjutant had replied. And with these words he had fallen from his horse and had died instantly.